Sassy Smart from Viva Las Vegas!

Good evening, Steemians! I’m here at @caffetto in beautiful, overcast Uptown Minneapolis. My sleep schedule has been really wonky lately. I’ve been staying up later and later, waking up after only a few hours and getting @guthrie ready for school. After coming home, I have breakfast or an early lunch, but by 11:00a.m., I can’t help napping. The nap is what screws me up for the rest of the day. I love productivity, so I hate waking up late in the afternoon, especially with just an hour or two before I have to get my son from school. I’m working on getting back to a regular [napless] schedule, but part of me feels like I’m still out of sorts from the coast to coast trip. *sigh*

I have some new photography to share. Work from Viva Las Vegas. In my head, Viva just happened. In reality, it was almost five months ago. “Dark Pinup” and everything leading up to it’s release has really warped my reality of time. The corresponding “correction” […we’re not suppose to use the word “crash”, are we?] altered my plans for a relaxing rest of the year. I had to book shoots and travel thousands of miles away to avoid spending crypto at all time low prices. Over the last couple of weeks, I’m starting to unpack some of the shoots I owe, from Viva Las Vegas […and even before]. This is one of those shoots.

Sassy Smart is an Asian-American Vietnamese pinup. She contacted me through social media about six months before Viva Las Vegas. She was one of the last shoots I was able to book before hitting my cap of thirty shoots in the two weeks I’d be in Vegas and Los Angeles […I went on to take three more beyond that “cap”]. Sassy and I discussed what we hoped to accomplished with our shoot together. Her shoot feel in the middle of a day that I had three shoots in a row. These are days I typically dread. If one thing goes wrong […late make-up artist, unavailable Uber or Lyft rides, check in or check out dilemmas]. It can affect everything that happens afterwards, sometimes leaving my last shoot to end well after midnight.

Fortunately, Sassy was on time, and her calm, quiet demeanor actually put me at ease. Even if I wasn’t trying to show it, I was stressed. She arrived at the resort we were shooting. We went through a couple of outfit options. A traditional Vietnamese gown, and a cute lingerie set. The first look was perfectly suited for the roof top of the resort. We found an interesting glass scenic overlook of the Las Vegas Strip. From there, we shot sexier lingerie photos in the bedroom which was trimmed and accented with gold tones.

This shoot with Sassy ended up being a relaxing break during a really stressful few days at the Rockabilly Weekend. I still have a few edits to get to from this shoot so keep an eye out. I’ll be posting more soon. Thanks for reading! For more photography, art, illustration and the stories behind the work, follow me here @kommienezuspadt. Have a great night!